Tropospheric ozone radiative forcing uncertainty due to pre-industrial fire and biogenic emissions

Rowlinson, Matthew J.; Rap, Alexandru; Hamilton, Douglas S.; Pope, Richard J.; Hantson, Stijn; Arnold, Steve R.; Kaplan, Jed O.; Arneth, Almut; Chipperfield, Martyn P.; Forster, Piers M.; Nieradzik, Lars

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10937-2020

Articles | Volume 20, issue 18

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10937-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-10937-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 18

Research article

|

22 Sep 2020

Research article |

| 22 Sep 2020

Tropospheric ozone radiative forcing uncertainty due to pre-industrial fire and biogenic emissions

Matthew J. Rowlinson, Alexandru Rap, Douglas S. Hamilton, Richard J. Pope, Stijn Hantson, Steve R. Arnold, Jed O. Kaplan, Almut Arneth, Martyn P. Chipperfield, Piers M. Forster, and Lars Nieradzik

Data sets

Global aerosol emissions from biomass burning for the late preindustrial Holocene, link to data in NetCDF format J. O. Kaplan and D. S. Hamilton https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.896425

Tropospheric ozone radiative forcing uncertainty due to pre-industrial fire and biogenic emissions (emissions in text files) M. Rowlinson https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/98C2N

Short summary

Tropospheric ozone is an important greenhouse gas which contributes to anthropogenic climate change; however, the effect of human emissions is uncertain because pre-industrial ozone concentrations are not well understood. We use revised inventories of pre-industrial natural emissions to estimate the human contribution to changes in tropospheric ozone. We find that tropospheric ozone radiative forcing is up to 34 % lower when using improved pre-industrial biomass burning and vegetation emissions.